Word: convert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most notable convert to the idea of holding such a meeting was Mexico, whose complacent view of Guatemala as a little country going through a period of revolutionary reform was abruptly upset last month when her southern neighbor received 2,000 tons of Communist arms and ammunition. A formal call for the conference, to meet around July 1, probably in Montevideo, is expected this week...
...machines that the Kremlin calls "development of virgin soil and wasteland." Since February, tens of thousands, mostly young Russians and Ukrainians-many of them never before close to a farm-plus hundreds of the best Soviet agricultural engineers and scientists, have been dragooned into a great eastward migration to convert 32 million acres of untilled land into a new Communist breadbasket as great as the Ukraine. Big percentages of Russia's farm-machinery output (e.g., 120,000 tractors this year, just about all that Russia can produce), spare parts, and the fuel to run them have been consigned...
...Star Penny Edwards (Pony Soldier, Powder River) who gave up a Hollywood career for her new faith (TIME, April 12). Her face was innocent of lipstick, but she confessed to using a bit of powder. "Even Adventist ladies have an aversion to shiny noses," said her husband, a fellow convert. "The toughest part for me was giving up smoking. It took me three weeks...
...householders on Bellevue Place, tenants of sleek new apartments and keepers of genteel rooming houses, didn't mind the idea of a local poets' corner until word got out that Mrs. Stevenson planned to convert the basement and garden of her house into a bohemian bistro. Chicago Gossip Columnist Irving ("Kup") Kupcinet confided in the Sun-Times that Mrs. Stevenson planned "a European style cafe [with] a combination of theatre and nite-club performances." The neighborhood exploded. In vain did Mrs. Stevenson and friends explain that the basement club would be private, the garden performances Shakespearean and very...
Then M.I.T. staged a long, sustained drive that culminated in a successful game-locking score, but were unable to convert...